Team & Riders
From Germany with the N°66, Searex.
A truly high-performance hull, with 2 MAN engines of 850 hp each.
From Germany comes the Searex, a Pantera 46 that brings the German offshore school to the Adriatic. Number 66, an endurance hull built for long distances: the kind of boat the Venezia-Montecarlo rewards, where holding the pace for hours matters more than outright top speed.
The crew from Hamburg
In command, Siegfried Greve, founder of SEAREX Germany and a pioneer of German offshore racing: he was the first to field a German team in the UIM Powerboat P1 World Championship. With him, pilots Udo Gross and Andreas Podolski, engineers Till Eichhorn and Hannes Potter, and mechanic Ahmet Gürel. A large crew, a true raid outfit, where the technical support weighs as much as whoever sits in the cockpit.
A boat built for distance
The Pantera 46 is built with Baltec, SEAREX’s own composite sandwich technology: light and stiff, to soak up the blows of the open sea. An endurance diesel, made to go the distance.
At the ninth-edition Prologue, 20-23 July 2023, the Searex finished third overall with 694 points, just two points off second place after three legs and three hundred miles. The full story is on the Searex crew page; the roll of honour and routes are on the The Race page.